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Image from the movie PCU (1993)
If ever there was a telling time in history, this is it. People are coming out in force, to speak up, they're mad as hell and they're not gonna take it anymore! But what are they mad about, and what is it they're trying to say? Well, they don't know.
Tens of thousand of lonely people who feel the need to be part of something... well something, have or will be descending on cities and even a few small towns across the globe. They're mad, they want change, and I'm fairly sure they got served cold coffee at the diner this morning. That's the only way I seem to rationalize their behavior.
I went in search of a cause. SOMETHING to chew on. A fellow Newsviner posted 2 links in one of their articles, Occupy Wall St. and Occupy Together.
Occupy Wall St was a dead end unless you count irreational complaints, a 'cause'. One article posted this...
The American Dream has been stolen from the world. Workers are told that they aren't allowed health care, shelter, food. Students are told that they aren't allowed jobs, and that they will be in debt for the rest of their lives, unable to declare bankruptcy. The 1% has destroyed this nation and its values through their greed. The 1% has stolen this world. We will not allow this to occur.
Funny, I've been working my entire adult life and was never told I wan't allowed health care, food or shelter. Sure, some jobs didn't prove health insurance, but no told me I wasn't allowed. Neither was I ever told I wasn't ALLOWED a job. And if you look at the last line, how are they not going to allow something to occur they claim has already occured?
In addition, another headline posted on the site that same day read this, "This Site Has Nothing To Do With Us" and linked to the Occupy Party.
If Occupy Wall St was a dead end in finding some sort of organizational platform, the Occupy Party webside was a black hole. The headline reads "We are the 99% protesting the 1% that own 50% of everything".
No real substance there. You're mad someone else owns things you don't.
So I head over to Occupy Together because well, it sounds fairly inviting. Of course I'm not really looking for companionship, I'm trying to find out what it is these people stand for other than occupying themselves with something to do. What I found was this.
We have no agenda other than to provide people with information about the events and actions happening in their area in solidarity and support of those that currently Occupy Wall St. Our political and social beliefs will remain neutral for this cause; this is not about us, this is about the movement. The only thing we will promote openly is peaceful demonstrations.
That's it in a nutshell. No agenda. The only they promote is demonstrating. We are here to demonstrate. We are here to demonstrate nothing, demonstrate everything we are demonstrating that we have nothing better to do and we're pissed off.
It's starting to feel like the college campus of one of my all time favorite movies, PCU. But in the end of PCU they actually came up with a noble cause and actually found 'solidarity' that 'we're not gonna protest'.
We're NOT gonna protest!
